Detailed Program of Sessions: 2024 Annual Meeting

1. Antony Augoustakis and Nicholas Rudman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Introduction
2. Guy Rahat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Revisiting Otho: Otho as an Anti-Nero in Tacitus’ Histories
3. Brendan Hay, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Duality in Leadership: Tacitus’ Pairs of Generals
4. Casey Barnett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Burdensome Brothers: Fraternal Liability in Tacitus’ Histories
5. Amy Vandervelde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Tacitus’ Gruesome Spectacle: Vitellius’ Perversion as Vespasian’s Eminence
6. Emma Reyman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   What a Tangled Web: Tacitus’ Use of Praetexo in the Histories
7. Joseph Baronovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   incertae causae, difficiliora remedia: Images of "Madness" in Tacitus' Histories.
8. Eleni Manolaraki, University of South Florida
   Response

1. Christopher Londa and Francesca Beretta, Yale University
   Introduction
2. Sarah Levin-Richardson, University of Washington
   Enslaved Experiences and Critical Fabulation in the House of the Vettii, Pompeii
3. Tommaso Bernadini, University of California, Berkeley
   Earinus in Two Acts: Anarchival Aesthetics in Statius, Silvae 3.4
4. Cat Lambert, Cornell University
   Forgery and the archive, ft. Confessions of the Fox
5. Chiara Graf, University of Maryland
   Archive, Hoard, Heap: The Exempla of Valerius Maximus and Frontinus
6. Nandini Pandey, Johns Hopkins University
   We, the Archive: Reparative Violence and Disciplinary Hauntology

1. Belisarius Welgan, Cornell University
   Aratus’ Mirror
2. E.L. Meszaros, Brown University
   Finding Algorithms in Babylonian Astronomy: A Venus Procedure Text and Cross-Cultural Case Study
3. Tejas Aralere, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Sirius Rising: Religious Metaphysics’ role in Roman astrology
4. Jovan Cvjeticanin, University of Virginia
   Martial’s Fasti: Calendrical Reversals in Epigrams Book 10
5. Nathaniel Solley, University of Pennsylvania
   Per liquidum aethera: A Horatian Constellation?

1. Zhengyuan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
   Introduction
2. Trenton W. Wilson, Princeton University
   The Construction of “Labor” in Early China
3. Yunxiao Xiao, Princeton University
   Processing with Bamboo and Wood: Information Technologies of Legal Writings in Early Imperial China
4. Flavio Santini, University of California, Berkeley
   Standardization in the Athenian Empire and Beyond: Imperial Ideologies and the Creation of Common Knowledge
5. Yifan Zheng, University of California, Berkeley
   Legal Treatment and Status Differentiation in Early China and Ancient Rome
6. Peter Fibiger Bang, University of Copenhagen
   Government without Bureaucracy? Empire and law in the Roman and other tributary empires
7. Zhengyuan Zhang, University of California, Berkeley
   The State and the Individual: Population Control and Taxation in Ancient Rome and Early China
8. John Weisweiler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
   Response

1. Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University, Chicago
   Achilles and Romulus in México: Mythopoiesis in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction
2. David Petrain, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
   The Homeric Framing of Phillis Wheatley’s “Infant Muse”
3. Mengzhen Yue, Shandong University
   Translating Aristotle’s Rhetoric in 1950s-1960s China: Politics and Translator’s Autonomy
4. Harriet Fertik, The Ohio State University
   “Their rest could benefit humankind:” Seneca and W. E. B. Du Bois on Leisure as a Political Project
5. Robert Barnes, Wabash College
   Athenoanchoring: Nicknaming Settlements as ‘Athens’ in the American Midwest

1. Melissande Tomcik, University of Toronto
   Virtue’s Claim to Fame in Statius’ Version of Menoeceus’ Sacrifice (Stat. Theb. 10.610-679)
2. Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis
   The Counternarratives of Composite Bodies: Moments of Disrupted Monstrosity in Post-Vergilian Latin Epic
3. Lien van Geel, Columbia University
   From Ships to Nymphs: Cybele’s Maternal Metamorphosis in Aen. 7.77-122 and Met. 14.530-65
4. Georgia Ferentinou, University of Toronto
   Incest Exposed: Oedipus’ Programmatic Speech in Statius’ Thebaid

1. Patrick Callahan, UCLA
   Dio Gelostom: Tracing Plato's Theories of Laughter in the speeches of Dio of Prusa
2. Matthew Lupu, Florida State University
   Reading Plato in Dio: How Cassius Dio’s philosophy shaped his Roman History
3. John Anderson, University of Texas at Austin
   Socrates’ Two Wives: irony and eclecticism in the pseudo-Platonic Halcyon

1. Patrick Burns, New York University
   Introduction
2. Annie K. Lamar, Stanford University
   Why should I believe what you tell me is true?”: What Machine-Generated Homeric Poetry Tells Us about AI and Philology
3. Jennifer Devereaux, Harvard University
   From the Presocratics to ChatGPT: Teaching Classics and the Ethics of AI
4. Abigail Swenor, University of Notre Dame, Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo, Walter Scheirer, University of Notre Dame
   Using AI to Study Semantics in Classical Literature: Perspectives from the Field of Computer Science
5. Barbara Graziosi, Charlie Cowen-Breen, Creston Brooks, and Johannes Haubold, Princeton University
   Zukunftsphilologie: The Rewards (and Perils) of Machine-Human Collaboration
6. Sebastian Heath, New York University
   Response

1. Solveig Hilmarsdottir, University of Cambridge
   The Latin -to Imperatives in Late Republican Epistolography
2. Tomaz Potocnik, University College London
   Neither Here Nor There: Interactive Functions of Vagueness in Roman Comedy
3. Andrew Merritt, Cornell University
   Some Clarifications Concerning the Origin and Relatives of γῆ/γαῖα ‘earth’
4. Angelo Mercado, Grinnell College
   Form and Structure in Aeolic Lyric Meter
5. Jorge A Wong II, Harvard University
   Between Archaism and Modernization: Synchronically Productive Aeolic Features in Homeric Verse-Making

1. Susan Satterfield, Rhodes College
   Prodigies and Expiations in Roman Sicily
2. Alicia Matz, Boston University
   Re-Centering Augustan Diana in Grattius’ Cynegetica
3. Christiane-Marie Cantwell, University of Cambridge
   A Re-Examination of the Forêt d’Halatte Ex-Votos : Power, Community and Entanglement

1. Brian Jorge Bizio, Whitman College
   ‘La Anónima’, vates amica: Latin Poetry as a Colonizing Weapon in 17th-Century Peru
2. Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso
   Translating Empire and Race: Vergil, Velasco, and Spanish Humanist Epic
3. Matthew Gorey, Wabash College
   (Pseudo-)Classics in Translation–The Case of Antonio de Guevara
4. Shruti Raigopal, University College Cork
   Rex, Satrap and Zamorin: Translating Titles in Early Modern Latin Texts of India

1. Yanxiao He, Tsinghua University
   Elagabalus, a Pantomime Dancer on the Eve of the Sasanian Empire
2. Raymond Lahiri, Yale University
   The Scene of Surrender: Josephus Reads Herodotus on Historical Contingency
3. Will Lewis, Independent Scholar
   Sofishticated Thoughts in Herodotus: Phusis and Nomos in the Nile River Delta
4. Ryan Baldwin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
   Frowned Upon in Most Societies? Cannibalism in Herodotus’ Histories

1. Amanda Kubic, University of Michigan
   The Trojan Women, Then and Now: Performing Disabled Futures in Kaite O’Reilly’s Peeling
2. Nebojsa Todorovic, Yale University
   Tragedies of Disintegration: Balkanizing Greco-Roman Antiquity
3. Hakan Ozlen, University of Wisconsin
   Against Enforced Forgetting: Resistance to Power in Antigone and the HIV/AIDS Crisis
4. Nina Papathanasapoulou, College Year in Athens/SCS
   Justice, Honor, and Gender Dynamics in Martha Graham's Clytemnestra

1. Jermaine Bryant, Princeton University
   Umbria, Home of the Roman Callimachus!: On Propertius' Problematic Patria
2. Sinja Kuppers, Duke University
   Loving a Slave: Redefining Servitium Amoris in Ausonius’ Love Poetry
3. Jonathan Clark, University of Washington
   Pone or Pelle Hederam? Ecohorror in Propertius
4. Emma Brobeck, Washington and Lee University
   A Catalogue of Genres: Defining Epic and Elegy in Fasti 3
5. Joshua Paul, Boston University
   The Furies as Defenders of Generic Boundaries in the Elegies of Propertius

1. James Aglio, Boston University
   Meter, Meaning, and the Iliadic Augment
2. Marissa Henry, Tulane University
   Eat the Rich: The Cattle of Helios and the Class Politics of Meat in Homer's Odyssey
3. Matthew Gumpert, Bogazici University
   Each Man Kills the Thing He Reads: Iliad 22.321-29
4. Charles Campbell, Purdue University
   Knowledge and Ignorance in Eumaeus’ Story (Od. 15.389-484)

1. Nadhira Hill, University of Michigan, and Christopher Stedman Parmenter, The Ohio State University
   Introduction
2. Ky Merkley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Queering the Syllabus
3. Anthony Jude Smith, University of Florida
   Flipping the Latin Classroom
4. Michael Okyere Asante, University of Ghana
   Student-Lecturers: Narratives on Strategies and Challenges of Teaching a Classics BA Programme in Ghana
5. Christopher Stedman Parmenter, The Ohio State University
   Love in a time of expected learning outcomes: Proposing your first course

1. Neil Coffee, University at Buffalo
   Introduction
2. Gregory Crane, Tufts University
   The State of Digital Classics in 2024
3. Chiara Palladino, Furman University, and Anna Muh, University of Washington
   Translation Alignment and Machine Learning for Classical Languages
4. Jeff Rusten and Ethan Della Rocca, Cornell University
   Digital Rescue: Transkribus as a tool saving Wüst’s Lexicon Aristophaneum (ca. 1910) from oblivion
5. Dunstan Lowe, University of Kent
   The Work of Play: Ancient Worlds in Digital Gaming

1. Julia Irons, University of Chicago
   The Dance of the Amazons: Intertext and Precedent in Callimachus’ Hymn to Artemis
2. Rebekah Spearman, St. John's College
   Kingfishers Above the Waves: The Transformative Power of Choral Alterity
3. Brittany Hardy, University of Michigan
   Gorgonic Transfigurations: Haraway's Terrapolis and the Chorus of Pythian 12

1. Katherine Panagakos, Stockton University
   Introduction
2. Zoe Korte, University of Missouri-Columbia
   The Electra Spectrum: A Comparative Analysis of Classical Reception of Sophocles’ Electra
3. Jonathan Rolfe, Hillsdale College
   Magniloquo. . .ore: Ovid’s Comic Use of Invented Epic Compounds
4. Jared Plasberg, Christendom College
   Reading in St. Augustine’s Confessions: An Activity Moving Mind and Heart
5. Alex-Jaden Peart, University of Pittsburgh
   Speaking (Un)freely: Phillis Wheatley and/at the Limits of Classicism
6. Daniel Leon Ruiz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Response

1. Lucy Mudie, University of Manchester
   Like parens, like parricide: Ovid's retour of Rome in Tristia 3.1
2. Juliette Delalande, Sorbonne Université - EDITTA
   Ovidian Narrators in Retrospect: past stories as a device for variation from the literary tradition and mythological innovation
3. Shona Edwards, University of Adelaide
   Reading Dido diffractively: Moving beyond reflection as a metaphor
4. Rachel C. Morrison, University of California, Los Angeles
   "An Answ'ring Cadence": Ovidian Retrospection in Henrietta Cordelia Ray's "Echo's Complaint"
5. Flora Iff-Noël, University of Florida
   Ovid's Arachne, a doubly retrospective passage?

1. Natasha Rao, University College London
   Greek? Egyptian? Syracusan? Stereotyping and identity claims in Theocritus’ Idyll 15
2. Walter Penrose, San Diego State University
   The Greek Stereotype of the Asian Matriarch: From Semiramis to Ada I
3. Erynn Kim, Yale University
   Unpacking Historical Baggage: Classical (Mis-)Receptions in Sally Wen Mao’s Mad Honey Symposium
4. Joseph Dreogemueller, University of Michigan
   Lozenges and Goats: Stock Smells in Roman Comedy and Horace’s Satires
5. Inger N.I. Kuin, University of Virginia
   Stereotype and slavery in the joke collection Philogelos
6. Kassandra Miller, Colby College
   Untimely Women: “Clock Time” and Gender Stereotypes in the Greco-Roman World

1. Alexandra Seiler, University of Vermont
   This Here God: Divinity and Deixis in Euripides' Bacchae
2. Joseph Di Properzio, Fordham University
   Forgotten Innovator: Carcinus, Euripides, and the Representation of Women in Tragedy
3. Vanessa Stovall, University of Vermont
   Braiding A-round: Coronal Chorality and Intertextual Extensions in Mid to Late 5th Century Tragedy
4. Emmanuel Aprilakis, Rutgers University
   I'm the Captain now: Actors as Chorus-Leaders in Greek Tragedy
5. Jocelyn Moore, University of Virginia
   Euripides' Electra and the Shouting House

1. Joseph Watkins, Boston University
   A Clean Celt? Ethno-Linguistic Comments in Catullus 23
2. Jennifer Weintritt, Northwestern University
   When the Textual Critic Assigns Gender: Catullus’ Attis Poem and its Editors
3. Basil Dufallo, University of Michigan
   Catullus 68 and Roman Comedy
4. Jennifer Ranck, CUNY Graduate Center
   What is in a name? Ariadne and the Eumenides in Catullus 64
5. Marina Grochocki, University of Wisconsin
   A Republican Choral Poetics And Catullus’ Political Chorus
6. Hannah Kloster, Boston University
   Catullus’ Nemesis: Amorous and Literary Retribution in the Catullan Corpus

1. Richard Janko, University of Michigan
   Aristotle’s Manuscripts and the Fate of his Library
2. Amanda Rivera, Boston University
   Family Trees: Orchards and the Raising of Children In Greek Epic
3. Amelia Bensch-Schaus, University of Pennsylvania
   Peleus and the Fate of Achilles: Iliadic Allusions in the Odyssean Argonautica
4. Camilla Basile, University of Virginia
   Apollonius’ Μοῦσαι ὑποφήτορες and the interpretation of the Egyptian tradition
5. Marissa Gurtler, University of Wisconsin
   Callimachus's Vibrant Materiality: Reading Non-Human Agency in Hymn to Artemis

1. Amie Goblirsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Rereading De Architectura 8: Nature and the Natural Environment in Vitruvius
2. Patricia Hatcher, CUNY Graduate Center
   Land Animals as Roman Propaganda in Pliny the Elder
3. Frances Pickworth, University of Bristol
   Cape Malea as narrative node: the poetics of divergence in the Odyssey
4. Stella Fritzell, Bryn Mawr College
   Forswearing Monstrosity: Giants and Epichoric Identity in Arcadia
5. Laurialan Reitzammer, University of Colorado Boulder
   Asteria and Leto: The Island of Delos, Sisters, and Theôria

1. Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College
   Translating Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: two examples
2. Noreen Kupernik, Thaden School
   Catullus the Valedictorian: Translating Latin in a High School Active Latin Classroom
3. Jordi Alonso, Independent Scholar
   Columbus Carmen Epicum, an Early-Modern Aeneid
4. Kate Meng Brassel, University of Pennsylvania
   “Oh, anxious humankind! How great the universe’s void! Who’ll read this stuff? This you ask me? No one, dammit. No one?” Persius, Satire 1.1-2.
5. Luís Márcio Nogueira, Independent Scholar
   A cordel translation of the Odyssey
6. Christopher Childers, Independent Scholar
   Greek and Latin Lyric Poetry: From Archilochus to Martial
7. Diane Rayor, Grand Valley State University
   Selections from Euripides' Hecuba

1. Amy Russell, Brown University
   Metaphor and Microcosm: The Body and the State at the Dawn of Empire in Rome and China
2. Jordan Thomas Christopher, Loyola Marymount University
   Losers: Dynamic and Discourse of Defeated Generals in Rome and China
3. Patrick Huang, University of Western Ontario
   The Politics of the “New Music” Tradition in Roman Greece and Warring States China
4. Yacong Qiu, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Astrologers and Occultists in the Courts of Rome and Han
5. Jinyu Liu, Emory University
   Occupational Associations and Religion: Early Rome Empire and Tang Dynasty Compared
6. Hans Beck, The University of Münster
   Response

1. Christelle Fischer-Bovet, University of Southern California
   Introduction
2. Giuliano Sidro, University of California, Berkeley
   Who Will Pay Child Support? Divorce, Roman Citizenship, and a New Latin Papyrus
3. Yuecheng “Russell” Li, Princeton University
   Paideia among the Orphans in Roman Egypt: The Case of P.Mich. IX 532
4. Foy Scalf, University of Chicago
   Intertextuality between Compilation and Application: A Demotic Spell for Compulsion and the So-Called Greco-Egyptian Magical Formularies
5. Joe Morgan, Yale University
   On Nascent Nomes and Nebulous Nomarchs
6. Nico Dogaer, Belgian American Educational Foundation
   Open Sesame? The Vegetable Oil Industry from the Ptolemies to the Romans
7. Paul Ulishney, University of Oxford
   Literary and Documentary Reflections on Mawālī and the Origins of the Islamic Patronate in Umayyad Egypt
8. Judith Evans Grubb, Emory University
   Response
9. Roger Bagnall, New York University
   Response

1. Michael Vazquez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   Stoic Tragedy and the Sources of Human Ethics
2. Joe Goodkin, Independent Performer
   The Odyssey: A Folk Opera
3. Mat Sweeney and Sebastian Peters-Lazaro, Four Larks
   Homeric Hymns
4. Gifty Etornam Katahena, University of Ghana
   The Love of the Nightingale
5. Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, Pramit Chaudhuri, Will Wasta-Werner, University of Texas at Austin, and Elena Navarre, University of Michigan
   This is my Native Land: Black Classics in Texas
6. Rebecca Levitan, University of California, Berkeley
   Revisiting Sperlonga: New Digital Documentation and Community Engagement

1. Michele Ronnick, Wayne State University
   Why is Milton ‘Milto’? Giovanni Salzilli, John Milton and Aelian
2. Mirella Saulini, Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University
   In the Mirror and on the Stage: the Perfect Prince According to Jesuits
3. Dániel Kiss, Universitat de Barcelona
   Human and divine statecraft in the manifesto Universis orbis Christiani principibus and in the Confessio peccatoris of Francis II Rákóczi
4. Bradley Ritter, Ave Maria University
   What (is) the best condition of a state?” (QUIS OPTIMUS REIPUB. STATUS, CW 3.2, no. 198): Thomas More’s Epigrammata as political discourse
5. David White, Baylor University
   Plenam potestatem et auctoritatem: The Commissions of Henry VIII in the correspondence of Sir Thomas More
6. Simone Carboni, Independent Scholar
   Radivilias, The Epic of the Lithuanian People

1. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
   Introduction
2. Cassandra M.M. Casias, Duke University
   Punic Silence: Recovering Rural Voices in Augustine’s Africa
3. Ashley Lance, University of Cambridge
   “Good-Bye Aristotle”: A Critical Indigenous Perspective on Aristotle, Colonialism, and Race
4. Caitlin Mostaway Parker, Independent Scholar
   Colonization, Imperialism and the Hudson’s Bay Company: The Consequence of Classics on the Indigenous People of North America
5. Kendall Lovely, University of California, Santa Barbara
   (Re)visiting (New) Mexico’s Ancient Origins: Ancestral Native Kinship Beyond Classical Civitas
6. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Princeton University
   Response

1. Chiara Palladino, Furman University
   Ugarit: a tool for Translation Alignment on Ancient Languages
2. Anna Conser, University of Cincinnati
   Pitch Accents and Melody in Greek Tragedy
3. Anna Santory Rodriguez, University of Michigan
   Mapping Myth: Medea on the World’s Stage
4. Charles Pletcher, Columbia University
   Write what you know: Enabling open, collaborative publications with commercial tools
5. Emily Pearce Seigerman and Benjamin Hellings, Yale University Art Gallery
   Magnifying the Minute: Numismatics and digital accessibility at the Yale University Art Gallery
6. Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia
   Kerameikos.org
7. Allison Sterrett-Krause, College of Charleston
   A Commercial Low-code Database for Legacy Archaeological Data
8. Anne Chen, Bard College
   The International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive (IDEA)
9. Karen Matthews, University of Miami
   Animating Antiquity: Student-developed VR Experiences of Roman Art and Architecture
10. Dorian Borbonus, University of Dayton, and Niels Bargfeldt, University of Copenhagen
    At home, visiting graves in Rome: VR environments as spaces for virtual collaboration
11. Michelle Martinez, Walnut Hills High School
    Using TinkerCAD in 7-12
12. Alex Elvis Badillo and Marc N. Levine, Indiana State University,
    A virtual exploration of art and architecture at the prehispanic capital of Monte Alban through edify’s VR learning platform

1. Inger N.I. Kuin, University of Virginia
   Introduction
2. Francesco Padovani, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
   The Terminology of Mystery Cults in Plutarch’s Works: Platonism Religion, and Philosophical Legitimation
3. Umberto Verdura, Columbia University
   The Prayer of the Ass: Silent Prayer and a Possible Meaning of the Book 11 of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
4. Serena Emilia Di Salvatore and Carmine Nastri, University of Salerno
   Neither a woman, nor a dog, nor a fly: Plutarch and taboos against entrance into Roman and Greek sanctuaries
5. Rebecca Frank, Colby College
   Croesus and the Debate over Delphic Ambiguity
6. Stephen Hill, Wyoming Catholic College/University of Virginia
   Dio Chrysostom’s Philosophical Prophetess in the First Kingship Oration

1. Itamar Levin, Brown University
   The Symbolism of Absence: Public Cenotaphs and Civic Ideology in Archaic Greek Colonies
2. Matthew Sears, University of New Brunswick
   Battlefields and Sacred Ways
3. Chiara Battisti, Princeton University
   Encoding Lives in Epigraphic Form: Family Memories and Empire in Statius, silv. 3.3 and the Flavii’s Monument from Cillium
4. Michael McGlin, Temple University
   Too Much and Never Enough: Timber Supply and Storage at the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delos (314-167 BCE)

1. Colin Webster, University of California, Davis
   Introduction
2. Figen Geerts, New York University
   Coining Bodies, Minting Health
3. Anna Bonnell Friedin, University of Michigan
   Technologies of Hope: Amulets and Networks of Care
4. Allyson Blank, New York University
   To Heal a Wound - Four Medical Plasters recreated from Greco-Roman Medical Texts
5. Malina Buturovic, Yale University
   Galen’s Creative Matter: Seeds, Cities, and Astrolabes
6. Michelle Lessard, University of Cincinnati
   Conveying Authority and Authenticity through Experiment in the Hippocratic Corpus

1. Isabel Cooperman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
   Tu mihi sola places: Politics, Law and Sex in Ovid's Ars Amatoria
2. Luiza dos Santos Souza, University of Cincinnati
   Elegist on the Verge of a Wreck: Movement Metaphors in the Tristia and a Poetic Career in Review
3. Cecilia Cozzi, University of Cincinnati
   Fatherhood as a Metaliterary Device: Interpreting Tragic Allusions in Metamorphoses 13

1. Jonathan Ready, University of Michigan
   How Euripides Cyclops 503–10 Revises Odyssey 9
2. Hana Aghababian, Cornell University
   Poetic compounds in Aeschylus and Euripides, not poles apart
3. Huaiyuan Zhang, Penn State University
   The ἀγών of τὸ σοφόν—An analysis of σοφός, σώφρων, and related terms in Euripides’ Bacchae
4. Deborah Beck, University of Texas at Austin
   Allusion and Audience in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
5. Allison Jodoin, Boston University
   Empty Nesting: Mother-Bird Similes in Homer, Aeschylus, and Sophocles

1. Rosa Andujar and Justine McConnell, King’s College London
   Introduction
2. Tom Hawkins, The Ohio State University
   Hacking as a Methodology for Post-Colonial Studies in Haitian Literature
3. Andres Carrete, University of Texas at Austin
   From Conformity to Cultural Resistance: A new Heritage discourse in the Antigones of Mexico
4. Cristina Pérez Díaz, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, UNAM
   Untimely Greeks in the Caribbean: Greek and African Antiquities as a Time before Colonialism in Marcial Gala’s Call me Cassandra

1. Alexander Vega, Harvard University
   Augustine on Norms of Belief in Friendship
2. Matteo Milesi, University of Michigan
   Porphyry, the Bible, and Christian allegor
3. Trevor Lee, The Ohio State University
   Allusions Without Purpose: Reassessing Tacitean Borrowings by Ammianus Marcellinus

1. Chingyuan Wu, Peking University
   Heracleote and Amastrian Connectedness: External Prosopographies (and Coins)
2. Samantha Doleno, Washington University in St. Louis
   The Political and Economic Implications of Nero’s Olympic Series of Alexandrian Coinage
3. Alexei Alexeev, University of Ottowa
   Glancing Back, Looking Forward: Prototype-Type-Metatype in Roman Numismatic Aegidophoric Portraiture

1. Kassandra Miller, Colby College
   Introducer
2. Michael Goyette, Eckerd College
   Supporting Accessibility and Inclusion in Study Abroad and Experiential Learning Contexts
3. Micheal Joseph Duchesne, Stanford University
   Sinners, Saints and Socrates
4. Efi Spentzou, Royal Holloway University of London
   Myth and Voice Initiative: Reflective Practice
5. Aida Fernandez Prieto, Manchester Metropolitan University
   Poverty, Social Justice, and Fear of the Poor in the Ancient Greek World: Aporophobia, Ancient and Modern
6. Emily Allen-Hornblower, Rutgers University
   The Hurt of the Past, the Wounds of the Present

1. Marsha McCoy, Southern Methodist University
   Scapegoating in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: The Story of Thelyphron
2. JuliAnne Rach, University of California, Los Angeles
   Cave Pamphilen: Reading the Witch in Apuleius’ Postcolonial Context
3. Christopher Parkinson, University of Melbourne
   Impetus Indignationis Meae: Apuleian Attitudes Towards Didactic and Moral Storytelling, Metamorphoses 10.29-10
4. Francesca Martelli, University of California, Los Angeles
   Orienting the Ass: Queer Objects in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
5. Brando Legott, Florida State University
   The Metamorphoses as Apuleius’ Platonic Myth
6. Ellen Finkelpearl, Scripps College
   Response

1. Allyn Waller, Stanford University
   Omnium consensu: The origins of a Tacitean dictum in Vitellian coinage
2. Elizabeth Raab, Yale University
   Generic Intrusion and Exemplary Depletion in Tacitus’ Histories 3
3. Jasmine Akiyama-Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
   Legitimate Successor or Successful Imposter?: (False) Neros in Tacitus’s Histories and Annals
4. Theodore Boivin, University of Cincinnati
   Destabilizing Communication in Tacitus: "Loaded" Alternatives in Historiae 1

1. Noah Segal, University of Minnesota
   What Did the Censors Ask Pompey? Plutarch and the Recognitio Equitum of 70 BCE
2. Nathaniel Katz, The University of Arizona
   The Unusual Assassination of Milonia Caesonia
3. Scott Arcenas, University of Montana
   Uncertainty and Narrative Political History
4. Riccarda Schmid, University of Zurich
   Aeschines Against Ctesiphon or how to lose an Athenian court case

1. Caroline Murphy-Racette, University of Michigan
   Helen and Trauma Narrative in the Iliad
2. Mason Barto, Duke University
   Couple's Therapy: A Reconsideration of Helen's (In)fidelity in Odyssey 4
3. Griffin Budde, Boston University
   Two Eyesights, One Vision: The Reception of “Owl-Eyed Athena” and “Cow-Eyed Queenly Hera” in the Iliad
4. Ian Hollenbaugh, Washington University in St. Louis
   Thought for food: On Niobe's eternal brooding

1. Alessandra Migliara, CUNY Graduate Center
   Literary Fiction and the Poetics of (Dis)Belief in Lucian and Aristotle
2. Benedek Kruchio, University of Cambridge
   The passio of Galaction and Episteme: converting erotic fiction
3. Valeria Spacciante, Columbia University
   Subverting Tragic Plots in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica 1.28-2.11

1. Hannah Cochran, New York University
   Cognata Viscera: Cannibalism and Kinship in Pseudo-Quintilian’s Major Declamation 12
2. Christopher Erdman, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Political Theater and Obstructionism in Republican Lawmaking
3. James Uden, Boston University
   Masculine Pity in Seneca's Controversiae

1. Anna Pendse
   Teaching the Classics to Breakthrough Students in Philadelphia
2. Bret Mulligan, Haverford College
   Bridge/Stats: a Tool for Discovering, Visualizing, and Comparing Textual Readability
3. Henry Zhang, Deerfield Academy
   Beyond the Sidebar: A Multimedia Approach to a Commentary on Plato's Crito
4. Anna Accettola, Hamilton College
   Athenian Comedies and Ancient Economies
5. Rebecca Resinski, Hendrix College
   Creative Deformance and Greek Tragedy

1. Elizabeth Asmis, University of Chicago
   Introduction
2. Doug Al-Maini, St. Francis Xavier University
   Towards a Socratic Theory of Exchange
3. John D. Proios, University of Chicago
   Calling Up Intelligence as Psychological Liberation, Republic 523a-524b and 515c-516c
4. Mariana Beatriz Noé, Harvard University
   Painting the Law in Plato’s Laws

1. Matthieu Real, Cornell University
   The Contest of Homer and Hesiod: Poets as Literary Critics
2. Keyne Cheshire, Davidson College
   Pandora’s Pithos and the Hope of Fools
3. Victoria Hsu, CUNY Graduate Center
   Parmenides’ Proem and the pseudo-Hesiodic Shield of Heracles
4. Ben Radcliffe, Loyola Marymount University
   Surplus Violence: Erides and Meta-Epic in Works and Days

SCS-53: Roundtable Session:

Salon D (Lower Level): Takeaways from the 2023 NEH Institute on the Performance of Roman Comedy
T.H.M. Gellar-Goad, Wake Forest University, and Christopher Polt, Boston College, Organizers

VIRTUAL: L’Année philologique: charting the way forward with bibliography (Joint Session)
Mackenzie Zalin, Johns Hopkins University, Organizer

VIRTUAL: Trans in Classics
Ky Merkley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Organizer

VIRTUAL: Texts & Textbooks in the Comprehensible Input Latin Classroom
Evan Armacost, Culver Academies, Organizer

Salon D (Lower Level): Digital Commentaries on Greek and Latin Texts
Christopher Francese, Dickinson College, Organizer

1. Debby Sneed, California State University, Long Beach, Alicia Matz, Boston University, Sydney Hertz, Barnard College
   Introduction
2. Hannah Biddle, University of Oxford
   Genderfluidity, Prophecy and Blindness – A Study of Tiresias
3. Justin Lorenzo Biggi, University of St. Andrews
   Two Disabled Women in Epidauros: Agency, Anatomical Votives and Embodied Texts
4. Carissa Chappell, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Body-Texts and the Bow: Genderqueer, Gendercrip Kinship in Sophocles’ Philoctetes
5. Jesse Obert, University of California, Berkeley
   Intersex Hoplites? The Normates of Warriorhood in Archaic and Classical Crete
6. Alexandra O’Neill, Trinity College, Dublin
   Recuperating Catullus’ Attis
7. Cecily Bateman, University of Cambridge
   Disability, Gender and Slavery in Roman Legal Writing

1. Tommaso Gazzarri, Union College
   Introduction
2. Margaret Graver, Dartmouth College
   Teles and Musonius on the Exiled Philosopher
3. Valéry Laurand, Université Bordeaux-Montaigne
   The Parrhesia of the Exile: Musonius Rufus and Disentanglement
4. Gregor Vogt-Spira, Philipps-Universität Marburg
   Roman Ideas in Musonius’ Concept of Freedom
5. Martina Russo, Sapienza, Università di Roma
   Musonius’ Nero. A pseudo-Lucianic Dialogue on the Philosopher and the Tyrant
6. Christopher Star, Middlebury College
   The Norms of Nature: Ethics and Physics in Musonius Rufus
7. Ilaria Ramelli, Durham University
   Musonius Rufus in Origen Of Alexandria: A Neglected Aspect of Stoic Wirkungsgeschichte on Patristic Platonism

1. Bryce Hammer, Rutgers Unversity
   Is a Slave Human? The Reception of the Comedic Slave in the Satires of Horace and Juvenal
2. Christopher Nappa, Florida State University
   A Transposition in Juvenal, Satire 6
3. Robert Santucci, Haverford College
   One Fish, Two Fish: Seneca Outweighs Horace’s Mullets
4. Edward Nolan, National Taiwan University
   Pliny the Younger: Code-switching and Humor
5. Kevin Muse, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
   Audire est operae pretium: Double Entendres in Horace Satires 1.2.37-8
6. Maya Chakravorty, Boston University
   Qui Curios Simulant et Bacchanalia Vivunt: Problematic Exemplarity in Juvenal’s Second Satire

1. Molly Hamil Gilbert and Edith Gwendolyn Nally, Mississippi State University
   “She is my city”: a Care Ethical Interpretation of Euripides’ Hecuba and Trojan Women
2. Irene Han, New York University
   The Pure and the Impure: Transcendence in Sophocles' Antigone
3. Sydney Kennedy, University of Cincinnati
   A Conflicted Chorus: Sophocles’ Philoctetes and the Tensions of Societal Reintegration of the Disabled
4. Isabella Reinhardt, Vanderbilt University
   Ares, Xerxes, and Collective Suffering in Aeschylus' Persians

1. Brittany Joyce, University of Michigan
   Enslaved Virgins: Slavery, Sexuality, and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
2. Katherine Dennis, University of Wisconsin
   Forced Entry: Slavery and Declamation in Amores 2.2-3
3. Nikola Golubovic, Reed College
   Enslaved Labor in the Ancient Schoolroom
4. James Hua, University of Oxford
   The mass enslavement of populations in the Classical Greek world: between suffering and solidarity
5. Sarah Breitenfeld, Davidson College
   Theodora’s Little Child: Enslaved Motherhood in Classical and Hellenistic Greece
6. Katherine Huemoeller, University of British Columbia
   Lucretia as Ideal Woman and Ideal Slaver in First Century BCE Rome

1. Reece Edmunds, Princeton University
   Cicero's appeal to natural law in Philippics 10 & 11
2. Rebecca Moorman, Boston University
   What Trembles Within? Affective Anagnorisis in Seneca's Thyestes
3. Emma Dyson, University of Pennsylvania
   Socrates and the Seven Sages
4. Bruce Frier, University of Michigan
   Roman Precursors of Modern Human Rights Doctrine: Cicero and Tertullian

1. Benjamin Porteous, Harvard University
   Roles, Boundaries, Blurriness? Reading Seneca Epistle 47 in Early Medieval China
2. Didier Natalizi Baldi, Harvard University
   The One and Many in Heraclitus and the Heng Xian
3. James Zainaldin, Vanderbilt University
   A Philological Approach to Comparative Studies? The Development of Pulse Lore in Classical Greco-Roman and Chinese Medicine

1. Philip Walsh, St. Andrew’s School
   Introduction
2. Colin Shelton, University of Arizona, and Allison Das, Kinkaid School
   ChatGPT vs. AP Exam vs. Classicist: Wrestling with Innovative Pedagogy in the Age of the Metaverse
3. Johanna Clark, Hunter College, CUNY
   Finding the ‘Heart-Shaped’ Connection: Looking at Latin Learning from Middle School to Post-Graduation
4. Robert Holschuh-Simmons, Monmouth College
   A Classics Professor’s Guide to Mutually Beneficial Relationships with K-12 Latin Teachers
5. Salvador Bartera, and Jessica Ann Westerhold, University of Tennessee Knoxville
   Supporting Collaboration with K-12 Latin Teachers (Current and Prospective): Notes from Nascent Initiatives in Tennessee
6. Sanjaya Thakur, Colorado College
   Response

1. Alison Hedges, Independent Scholar
   Poetics in The Triumph of Horus: Ritual Drama from an Aristotelian Perspective
2. Elke Nash, University of New Hampshire
   Euripides’ Medea and the Necessity of Violence
3. Sydney Hertz, Barnard College
   Swollen-foot: The Possibilities of a Disabled Self-Performance of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
4. Suzi Elnaggar, Northwestern University
   Response

1. Collin Moat, University of California, Los Angeles
   Burning Mortal Materials: the Transformation and Reassemblage of the Body in Homeric Funerals
2. William Austin, Princeton University
   Floral Ornament at the Grave: Acanthus Plants between Nature and Facture
3. Mary Danisi, Cornell University
   The Purity of Sacrificial Ornament: A Ritual-Ecological Framing of the “Boukrania and Fillets” Motif
4. Jessica Plant, University of Cambridge
   Roman Plaster: The Semantics and Mechanics of a Craft Ecology
5. Matthew Westermeyer, Cornell University
   Grafted Trees atop Mt. Nebo: Byzantine Art and Practice Amongst the Trees
6. Sandra Blakely, Emory University
   Response

1. Thomas Munro, Yale University
   Vergil on Nature and Culture: a Re-reading of Eclogue 10
2. Aaron Seider, College of the Holy Cross
   Imagining Affect: Movement and Emotion in the Georgics
3. Erica Krause, University of Virginia
   Darkness Golden: Dark Ecology in Vergil's Golden Age
4. Kresimir Vukovic, University of Venice, Ca' Foscari
   Vergil’s Rivers: A Case Study in Non-Human Agency
5. Francesco Grotto, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
   Durando saecula uincit: Time of Plants and Time of Men in Virgil's Oeuvre
6. C.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
   The Vergil Garden in Naples
7. Tom Geue, Australian National University
   Response

1. Bruce M. King, The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
   Remember Patroklos
2. Celsiana Warwick, University of Iowa
   Queer Paradigms of Achilles and Patroclus
3. Emily Hudson, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Queer Cassandra: Re-Reading Euripides’ Trojan Women
4. Emily Waller Singeisen, University of Pennsylvania
   "Costume is Flesh": Trans*ing Pentheus in Anne Carson’s Bakkhai
5. Em Roalsvig, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Looking Back: Queer Orpheus and His Modern Reception in Two Queer French Films
6. Rachel Lesser, Gettysburg College, and Erin Lam, Bryn Mawr College
   Response

1. David Levene, New York University
   The Tale of Two Bad Ptolemies
2. Allen Alexander Kendall, University of Michigan
   Rethinking the Role of the Alexandrian "Mob" in Ptolemaic Succession Politics
3. Qizhen Xie, Brown University
   Land Transfer and Property Rights: Infrastructural Power in Seleucid Asia Minor
4. Giulio Leghissa, University of Toronto
   Moving away from water-centered narratives of Hellenistic Egypt: Ptolemaic Presences in the Western Desert
5. Samantha Blankenship, University of Tennessee Knoxville
   The Persian Techniques of Alexander's Historians
6. Anja Bettenworth, University of Cologne
   Shame and tyranny in Curtius Rufus’ Historiae Alexandri Magni

1. Hans Hansen, Smith College/Amherst College, Zack Rider, University of South Carolina
   Introduction
2. Jessica L. Moore, Iowa State University
   Besieged Memory: Intertextuality and the Classical Past in Procopius’ Treatment of the City of Rome
3. Katherine Krauss, Australian Catholic University
   Didactics and Literary Memory in Macrobius’ Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
4. K.P.S. Janssen, Leiden University/University of Edinburgh
   Legal Principles: (Re)positioning Rome’s Legal History in Tacitus’ Annals 3.25-28
5. Tom Lister, University of Oxford
   Melanthios: (Mis)memorialisation Beyond the Tragic Canon
6. Robert Rohland, University of Cambridge
   Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Shipwreck Epigrams
7. Tedd Wimperis, Elon University
   Response

1. Noel Lenski, Yale University
   Meliboeus esse coepi: A critical reading of Sidonius Epistula VIII.9
2. Lucy McInerney, Brown University
   An Ovidian audax aranea at Work in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae
3. Gianmarco Bianchini, University of Toronto
   Constructing Virgil’s Authority in Pseudo-Asconius’ Commentary on the 'Verrines'
4. Giovanni Piccolo, University of Melbourne
   Animals, Nature, and Power: the Zoological Content of Solinus' Collectanea
5. Victoria Lansing, University of Oxford
   Challenging Philosophy Through Elegy: Boethius’ use of Ovid’s exile poetry in the Consolatio

1. Allie Pohler, University of Cincinnati
   Mihi plurumum credo: Alcmena’s Resistance to Psychological Manipulation in Plautus’ Amphitruo
2. Joseph Smith, San Diego State University
   The placement of word shapes in the Iambo-Trochaic Verse of Plautus and Terence: A Unified Field Theory of Theatrical Composition
3. Paul Eberwine, Princeton University
   Eating Democracy in Aristophanes’ Wasps
4. Margaret Danaher, Brown University
   Knemon’s Fall: Tragic Disability in Menander’s Dyskolos
5. Christopher Ell, Brown University
   Wasps 1208-1215 and the Non-Elite Symposion
6. Melissa Funke, University of Winnipeg
   The Sicilian Character of Sophron's Mimes

1. Roberta Stewart, Dartmouth College, and Nathan Elkins, American Numismatic Society
   Introduction
2. Ute Wartenberg, American Numismatic Society
   The First Prototypes on Early Electrum Coinage: From Seemingly Random Emblems to an Iconographic Program
3. Daniel Qin, University of Pennsylvania
   Coping with loss and confusion: copying old coins for a new identity
4. Marc Philipp Wahl, Universität Wien
   Prototypes, Copies, and Fakes: A case study of the Croton, Thourioi and the Italiote league
5. Alexander Meeus, Universtität Mannheim
   Political and Cultural Continuity with Argead Prototypes in Early Hellenistic Royal Coinage
6. Jane DeRose Evans, Temple University
   The Abduction of Persephone on Coin Types of the Eastern Roman Provinces
7. Dario Calomino, Università di Roma
   Imperial imagery on Roman provincial coins: prototypes and derivations
8. Benjamin Hellings, Yale University
   Response

1. Michael A. Freeman, Duke University
   Books Written By Children: New Evidence for the Age and Social Background of Copyists
2. Elizabeth Lavender, Yale University
   Declaiming to One’s Self: The Extended Mind in Rhetorical Education
3. Tobias Philip, Rutgers University
   The Theater of Practical Education in the Works of Xenophon
4. Charis Jo, University of Oxford
   Penelope or Logic: translating dialectica in classical Latin literature
5. Li Li, King’s College London
   Who were the audience of Isocrates? A contextual analysis based on rhetorical strategies and communication modes

1. Michael Taylor, University at Albany
   Introduction
2. John Hyland, Christopher Newport University
   Pax Persica: Small Wars and the Achaemenid Frontiers
3. Rhyne King, DFG Project “The Unexplored Heartland”
   Satraps and Regional Governance in the Achaemenid Empire: A Comparative Perspective
4. Wouter Henkleman, École Pratique des Hautes Études (Paris)
   Reviewing the Achaemenid signature: Elamite documentation from Persepolis
5. Christine Chandler, New York University
   Tradition, Innovation, and Ideology Among the Inscribed Seals from the Persepolis Fortification Archive
6. Ella Karev, University of Chicago
   Slavery in Egypt Before and After the Persians: Continuity and Change
7. John WI Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
   Achaemenid Imperialism, from the 19th century to the present

1. Austin A. Hattori, University of Cincinnati
   Ptolemaic Propaganda, the Chepel Papyrus, and the Artists of Dionysus
2. Sarah Cullinan Herring, University of Oxford
   Medea's magical music: gendered song and power disruptions in Apollonius’ Argonautica
3. Alyson Melzer, Indiana University
   Empire of the Pantomime: Kinesthetics of Power in Lucian’s On Dance
4. Charles Cosgrove, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
   Singing in the Streets: Public Deployments of Christian Song in the Late-Fourth Century
5. Philip Wilson, Harvard University
   Battle Hymn of the Empire: Domestication and Savagery in Pange Lingua

1. James Sickinger, Florida State University
   Introduction
2. Edward Jones, University of Oxford
   Penalties for Officials in Athenian Inscribed Decrees
3. Luke De Boer, Billkent University
   Last Wills and Hellenistic Statehood: the Testament of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II (SEG IX 7)
4. Josh Allbright, University of Southern California
   Loan Sharks in the Aegean Sea: Legal Culture and Epigraphy on Amorgos
5. Alex Cushing, Loyola University Maryland
   It´s Who You Know. Co-freedmen Networks & Legal Knowledge in the Campanian Wax Tablets
6. Rafail Zoulis, Yale University
   Law as Narrative: Negotiating provincial identities in the early Roman Empire

1. Christopher Jotischky, Brown University
   Teaching Latin in Independent Greece: A Metric of Europeanness?
2. Kirsten Day, Augustana College
   Classics and the Incarcerated: A Symbiotic Relationship
3. Simeon Ehrlich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   Applying Pedagogical Models from Modern Arabic to Ancient Greek

1. Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College
   Dismembered According to the Rigor of Harmony: A Structuralist Reading of Zosimos' Visions
2. Christopher Atkins, Yale University
   Plato, Magoi, and Lived Religion in Fourth-Century Athens: A View from Attic Curse Tablets
3. Catherine Saterson, Yale University
   Sirens Bind: Siren-Song as Binding Spell in the Odyssey, Plato’s Cratylus, Xenophon’s Memorabilia, and a Roman Curse Tablet from the 1st Century C.E.
4. Geoffrey Harmsworth, Columbia University
   Artemidorus and the Panopticism of Urban Life: The Social Worlds of Non-Elites

1. Nick Winters, Northwestern University
   Hybrid Mathematical Texts and Greek Intellectual Networks
2. Mason Wheelock-Johnson, Lawrence University
   Senecan Geometry and Stoic Surfaces
3. Johannes Wietzke, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
   Scaling down the world, up to a point: ludic limits in Pseudo-Scymnus’ Periodos to King Nicomedes

1. Alexander Fedchin, Tufts University
   There are no acrostics in Vergil (but Renaissance has plenty)
2. Melanie Racette-Campbell, University of Winnipeg
   Veronica Franco’s reception of Ovid’s Heroides and Amores,
3. Talia Boylan, Yale University
   Alciato's Local Livy

1. Konstanze Schiemann, University of Amsterdam
   Filling the bellies of the beasts.” Late antique Christian criticism of animal hunts and the problem of chain consumption
2. Lydia Herndon, University of Chicago
   Animality and Edibility in Ambrose’s Hexameron
3. Clare Kearns, Brown University
   The Animal as Index of Difference in Daphnis and Chloe 1.16
4. Julie van Pelt, Ghent University
   A Christian Paradoxography: Humans, Animals, and Monsters in the Life of Makarios the Roman (BHG 1004-1005)

1. Umit Ozturk, Stanford University
   “Learning from the Enemies”: Institutional Learning and Mimetic Isomorphism in Imperial Fiscal Institutions
2. James Macksoud, Stanford University
   Quantifying the Expenditures of Local Governments during the Roman Principate
3. Evan Vance, University of California, Berkeley
   ‘Sacred wealth’ as an economic category in ancient Greek thought and practice

1. Maxwell Wade, Boston University
   Distinctive Features within Plotinus’ Elemental Theory
2. Aaron Johnson, Lee University
   A Nature Akin to Human Nature:’ Human-Plant Relations in Porphyry of Tyre
3. William Altman, Independent Scholar
   “The Regrettable Reincarnation Thesis” in Timaeus: The Achilles Heel of Neoplatonist Natural Philosophy
4. Jonathon Greig, KU Leuven
   Proclus on Sensible Substance and Particulars

1. Lydia Spielberg, University of California, Los Angeles
   Reading Cato’s In Galbam at the end of the Origines
2. Caitlin Gillespie, Brandeis University
   Magistra Libidinum Neronis: Calvia Crispinilla and the Power of Vice
3. Paul Hay, Hampden Sydney College
   Fenestella and the Temporal Rhetoric of Tiberian Literature
4. Martin Shedd, Thesaurus Linguae Latinae
   Monsters of Vice, Masters of One: the Invective Genre in the Historia Augusta
5. Jackie Elliot, University of Colorado, Boulder
   Cato the "antiquarian"

1. Sandra Blakely, Emory University
   Introduction
2. Netanel Anor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
   Secrecy and the Oracle Lore: On Knowledge Restriction in Ancient Babylonia
3. Bartek Bednarek, University of Warsaw/ Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich
   On the secrecy of Maenadic rites
4. Isobel K. Köster, University of Colorado
   How to suppress a secret cult: invective and perverted rites in Cicero’s Catilinarians
5. Vivian Laughlin, Wake Forest University
   An Exploration of Secrecy and Sociogenesis from the Palatine Hill
6. Sandra Blakely, Emory University
   Response

1. Kathleen Cruz, University of California, Davis and Malina Buturovic, Yale University
   Introduction
2. Carolyn Tobin, Vassar College
   Personhood and the Body in Roman Funerary Monuments
3. Nicholas Banner, Trinity College, Dublin
   Reassessing the Relationship between the Platonist(ic) Subtle Body and the Christian Resurrection-Body
4. A. Everett Beek, North-West University (Noordwes-Universiteit)
   I see only bones and bare skulls: Skeletons in Lucian's Afterlife

1. Artemis Brod, Independent Scholar
   Bodily Surfaces in Aelius Aristides’ Third Hieros Logos
2. Micaela Brembilla, Uppsala University
   The drawings of the Gynaecia of Mustio - where text and materialities meet
3. Hana Liu, Stanford University
   Orator Patiens: Therapeutic Rhetoric in Aelius Aristides's Hieroi Logoi
4. Marko Vitas, Brown University
   The Mesopotamian Hippocrates? The Rhetorical Strategies of the Hippocratic treatise De victu 4 in the Context of Mesopotamian Medical Tradition
5. Trevor Luke, Florida State University
   Suffering with Sickness under Domitian in Pliny’s Letters

1. Vasileios Sazaklidis, University of Texas at Austin
   Cicero’s Letters of Exile and The Space of Political Upheaval
2. Julia Mebane, Indiana University
   Searching for the Crowd in Cicero's Second Catilinarian
3. Scott Di Giulio, Mississippi State University
   Dialogue across Fragments? Quotations of Republican Tragedy in Varro and Cicero
4. Tiziano Boggio, University of Cincinnati
   Mea Vox Occidit: Voice and Silence in Cicero's Letters from Exile
5. Olivia Elder, University of Oxford
   'Enslaved to the courts': slavery and/as politics in Cicero's early speeches

1. Colin Lacey, Boston University
   Deserti Coniugis Iras: Aeneas, Helen, and Abandonment
2. Brayden Hirsch, Boston University
   Blindness and Vergil's Auditory Imagination
3. Peter Kotiuga, Boston University
   The Homeric Language for Rescue in Virgil’s Aeneid
4. Cynthia Liu, University of Oxford
   Orestes and cosmic chorality in Aeneid 12
5. Matthew Sherry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
   Spinning Yarns and Spinning Songs: Clymene in Vergil’s Georgics (4.345–349)

1. Joseph Dexter, Harvard University, Pramit Chaudhuri, and Elizabeth D. Adams, University of Texas at Austin
   Corpus-Wide Computational Analysis of Anagrammatic Wordplay in Latin Literature
2. Stephen Trazskoma, California State University, Los Angeles
   Explaining Ancient Greek Enclitics: A New Analysis
3. Michele Bianconi, University of Oxford; Marta Capano, Università per Stranieri di Siena; Federica Fanizzi, Università di Bari; Marcello Gelone, Soprintendenza ABAP per il Comune di Napoli; Valentina Lunardi, University of California, Los Angeles; Simona Marchesini, Alteritas - Interazione tra i popoli
   New Perspectives on Messapic Language and Culture
4. Yuliya Minets, University of Alabama
   Accents, Pronunciation, and Normativity of Oral Speech in Late Antiquity

1. Brett Evans, Georgetown University
   The Syracusia Affair: Archimelus, Moschion, and Sicilian Cultural Politics
2. Kathleen Kidder, University of Houston
   Rivers as Sources and Symbols of Displacement: The Representation of Three Callimachean Rivers in Lycophron’s Alexandra
3. Thomas Nelson, University of Oxford
   Hellenistic Jewish Epic Between Homer and the Septuagint
4. Kathryn Wilson, Washington University in St. Louis
   Deciphering the Alexipharmaca’s “Incomplete” Acrostic
5. Marcie Persyn, University of Pittsburgh
   Playing with Traditions: Lucilian Satire and Herodian Mime
6. Matthew Chaldekas, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
   Erotic Objectification in the Epigrams of Philodemus

1. Daniel Golde, The Jewish Theological Seminary
   Who Wants to be Normal Anyway?: Biblical Greek and Interlingual Pedagogy
2. Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College
   Looking Beyond Athens in the First-Year Greek Classroom
3. Robert Groves, University of Arizona
   Why Prose Fiction for Intermediate Greek Courses?

1. Nicoletta Bruno, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies Innsbruck
   Classical Tradition and the Alterity of the New World in Peter Martyr’s Letters to Pomponius Laetus
2. Elena Giusti, Warwick University
   The Early Modern Re-Invention of Rome’s ‘African Monstrosities’
3. Julia C. Hernandez, New York University
   Patagonian Giants, Orinocan Acephaloi: The Recursive Printed Legacy of the "Plinian Races" Transplanted to the Americas, Image and Text
4. Irene Peirano Garrison, Harvard University
   Insolitum est feminam scire Latine: on the gender of Latin in early modern educational treatises

1. Maddalena Scarperi, University of Pennsylvania
   Erasing Landscapes, Silencing the Past: a post-colonial reading of Bacchylides’ Ode 11
2. Maria Kovalchuk, University of Pennsylvania
   Theocritus’ Idyll 18 and the Invention of the Sacred
3. Mary Anastasi, University of California, Los Angeles
   Ajax v. Odysseus: Two Archetypes of Wisdom and Skill in Pindar’s Isthmian 4
4. Bryan Norton, Washington University in St. Louis
   An Echo in the Dark (O.14.20-24): Audibility and Visibility in Pindaric Epinician
5. Victoria Hodges, Rutgers University
   Between Disillusioned Bodies and the Sublime in Timotheus' Persians
6. Zachary Haines, University of Virginia
   Iliad 6 and Sappho fr 44